 Dawn M. Dorland |
Elements vs Canon DPP Hello... I have been doing the tutorials for the Canon DPP processing software that came with my Canon 50D. Is anyone familiar with this program and Elements 8. If Elements 8 does more than DPP, I would rather just go straight to Elements 8 and not waste anymore time trying to learn DPP. I am definetly not buying Photoshop yet, as I am a beginner and just now toying with the post-editing thing. I know I asked before about alternatives to Photoshop, but got 50/50 opinions on which one to do. Thanks for any advice.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hello Dawn, I was using Photoshop before I bought my 1st Canon so I never learned Canons DPP nor use it. My friend did use it for a couple of years for processing his raw images but would then move them into Elements to do additional editing until CS3 came out when he finally made the switch. For less than $100 - Elements 8 would be a great & wise investment. I dont know if DPP has the ability to do layers as this is a great and powerful tool for editing software. Elements8 will process raw & contains many of the same tools you have in Photoshop. my .02 Carlton
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
I wouldn't say Elements and DPP are comparing apples-to-apples. The DPP is quite useful for converting your RAW files, fixing exposure and white balance issues pretty easily and effectively. I found DPP much better at handling those initial exposure/color adjustments during the RAW conversion, vs. trying to do that same function in Elements on a straight-converted RAW-to-TIF file. (My last-used version of Elements could not convert my RAW files, so I simply used DPP for every image, since I shoot RAW. I would make all my global exposure/tone/color adjustments to the image, save the result as a TIF, and then use Elements for additional photo editing on that TIF, as needed--spot cloning/dust removal, "digital darkroom" or artistic filters, cropping, reducing, etc. I'm now in CS4, and have pretty much abandoned DPP, since CS4 has a good set of RAW conversion tools that do all the exposure controls DPP did, and then some---and the final result after those RAW conversion tweaks then opens up in CS4 for my "photo editing" steps I formerly did in Elements, before I save the result as a TIF. I would still be (contentedly) using DPP + Elements today, however, if I had not been given CS4 as a gift. One comment about DPP---be sure you visit the Canon site for the latest free version upgrades... they routinely upgrade that program (not to mention your camera's firmware version) and several nice DPP enhancements came out some time ago---I'd remained on my very first version of DPP for a few years, before I realized that!
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Dawn M. Dorland |
Thanks for the info, I have finished the DPP tutorial on Canons website and done my first few RAW conversions. Unfortunately I have not been able to figure out how to make them small enough to upload to Betterphoto.com. I will need more practice. Now shooting RAW/JPEG, so I can goof off with the RAW, and have the JPEG for a back up. Maybe soon I will be able to move on to CS4. I appreciate the info.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
If memory serves, DPP does not provide an Image Resizer... It really is meant as a RAW converter, not an image editor. Elements does have Resize, however. So once you got a RAW converted to TIF or JPG (but still at full, original image size) you could open that file in Elements, and use the Image Resize function to make a smaller-pixel-count image (such as 800 pixels on the long size), and save that resulting file for BP upload.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
I don't recall that DPP has an image resizer. Elements does, however, so once you get all your edits done (in DPP and/or Elements) you can resize the final results file down to say, 800 pixels on the long side in Elements, then save that, for BP upload.
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